A few tunes of his first film Vachan ( O babu babu, jaanewale babu and Chanda mama door ke) went on to become all-ime hits. Nagin, in fact, was one of the last films Ravi did as an assistant to Hemant da, for he started scoring music independently soon afterwards, tasting success early. The cover of the record released by HMV gives credit to Ravi and Kalyanji, who were part of Hemant Kumar’s team but later went on to became successful music composers themselves. There has been a lot of discussion on who created that piece. Much of the long-term popularity of the song was, of course, because of the beautiful sound of been. But that shows how much Man dole was etched in memory that even someone like Sayani could get confused!
In fact, when HMV (now Saregama) released a special album on the occasion of 25 years of the program, Ameen Sayani, who presented the program actually included this song as the top ranked song of 1954, albeit by mistake. Myths apart, the popularity of the song is proven by the fact that it ranked at No 2 in annual Binaca Geetmala Hit Parade in 1954, the ultimate barometer of popularity of Hindi film songs at that time. This caught the imagination of people so much that there were so many myths that got created around this-the most popular being that snakes “were attracted” by it and entered the film theatres when the song was playing! What adds to the charm of the song is the been music played in the song.
Man dole mera tan dole from the 1954 film Nagin remains one of the most popular songs in Hindi cinema.
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